For lifelong music fan Matt Smith, of Marshfield, his latest job made perfect sense. On February 2, Smith, who is already the managing director of the fabled Club Passim in Harvard Square, hosted his first edition of WMVY radio’s "The Local Music Café."
The show airs at 9 p.m. Tuesdays on the Martha’s Vineyard based station (88.7 FM, also carried on 96.5 FM in Newport) and is re-broadcast at 8 p.m. Sundays. The shows are also available on MVYRadio.org, where all previous shows are also archived.
“I didn’t do anything specific for my debut, figuring I’d just ease into it,” said Smith from his Marshfield home this week. “For me, it’s an opportunity to support artists I already like and also to reach out and find new artists I might not be familiar with. I would expect we’ll have some of our Club Passim favorites and there’ll be a thread through the programs of people who’ve worked together on each other’s projects and the like. I’m looking at it as a really fun thing. I recorded my first one ahead of time and when I listened back to it, I decided, yes, I really like this show.”